Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.'

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

I was just like a 21st century person waiting to be born, and this is the medium that I thrive in. And I feel stronger now than I did any time since I've been a teenager - I mean, musically, creatively.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

I definitely dislike pomposity and artifice. I hope that I'm not that. Once I write a song, it belongs to the world, and the way people perceive it, it's cool.

I'm in the trenches; I do the best work I can always do. Having said that, the way that what I do converges with the outside world is fascinating to me. Because it ebbs and flows. People's interest and understanding, it changes all the time.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

The first thing I ever did was play talent shows at the Uptown Theater and the Adelphi Ballroom.

In the early '70s, I started to feel like Philadelphia soul was the black-sheep brother of rock and roll. I decided to try to get away from it.

All artists have insecurity.

You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.

I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates videos.

I don't really strain my voice.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

Who knows what the right time to get married is?

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who'd go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.

I do a project, and then I move on.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

Obscurity is just obscurity. There's no romance in obscurity.

I'm very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I'm interested in.

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

I've been traveling around the world forever.

If you can sing, you never lose your voice. If you don't know how to sing, your voice goes away because you sing from your throat.

I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I had the idea of 'Live From Daryl's House' way before I contracted Lyme disease.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

The Internet allows me to be more free.

I've watched the world crash and burn in every sense. I've watched the record industry crash and burn; politically I've watched it crash and burn, financially crash and burn.

You externalise extreme emotions, and you look at them objectively and understand them from a different standpoint.

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.

As I got older, my voice got better.

If you see me walking down the street, you're gonna see the same guy as you do on stage, dressed the same, looking the same, and nothing changes. I'm just one person.

I think Philadelphia has been underrated over the years as a musical region.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.